About this artwork

This painting appears to show a nude walking in an interior, whilst another, female figure reclines on a red bed in the foreground. The right of the composition could be an entrance in to another space, or perhaps a mirror reflecting a distorted view of the scene to the left. A dressing table with egg-shaped mirror appears in the background. Lucas produced numerous surrealist paintings in from 1939-41 and thereafter surrealist elements still populated his work. The movement and distortion of the forms in this work also seem to show the influence of Vorticism.

Updated before 2020

  • artist:
    Edwin Lucas (1911 - 1990) Scottish
  • title:
    Untitled (Bedroom Abstract)
  • date created:
    1949
  • materials:
    Oil on canvas
  • measurements:
    Canvas: 63.50 x 76.00 cm; Framed: 75.00 x 86.80 x 5.40
  • object type:
  • credit line:
    Purchased 2013
  • accession number:
    GMA 5376
  • gallery:
  • subject:
  • artwork photographed by:
    Antonia Reeve
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Edwin Lucas

Edwin Lucas